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The Modern farmer

by: National Federation of Colored Farmers

Publication date: 1936-1940

Topics: Agriculture, African Americans, African American Farmers, Periodicals, Agriculture -- Periodicals

Publisher: Nashville, Tenn., and Chicago, Ill., National federation of colored farmers, inc.

Collection: cornell

Contributor: Cornell University Library

Language: English

Volume: v.9-12 (Feb 1936-Jan 1940)

Item Size: 1.1G

Modern Farmer was one of the only serial publications published in the Depression-era United States that was aimed at African-American farmers. It was published between 1929-1949 by the National Federation of Colored Farmers (NFCF), an organization which formed local chapters of buying and selling distribution cooperatives for African-American farmers and their goods at a time when prevailing Jim Crow laws made such efforts dangerous. Editor James P. Davis was the president of the NFCF, Head Field Officer the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and was also a member of President Roosevelt’s “Black Cabinet.”